For me it would be Medication by Queens of the Stone Age. Coincidentally (okay, really not that coincidentally) Medication is also the title of my novel, for now at least. But seeing as how that song is pretty short, I'd probably need a second song, which would probably be Disconnected by In Flames, because it's my main character's theme song, plus it's just awesome.
So what about you? If your novel was a movie, what song would be playing when the credits roll?
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/llllll\ Ia! Ia! Cthulhu! Fhtagn!
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust" T.S. Eliot
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Nov 9, 2008 - 12 40
Opening credits: Leaning towards Zevon's 'Lawyers, Guns, and Money.' Runner-up is the Kinks' 'In a Foreign Land.' My book synopsis should make it clear why these two are excellent openers.
Closing credits: An instrumental by this fantastic swing jazz duo I heard regularly in San Telmo marketplace (near Calle Defensa). I haven't got the CDs on me at the moment but they were really good: Older guy with white hair and a beret and his skinny, art-student-looking thirtysomething pal with long hair and horn-rimmed glasses. If anyone knows the name of these two from that lame description, let me know and it'll save me digging out the CDs. (Google is being spectacularly uncooperative.) I love Django with a passion, so I almost want to insist on that, but one of the two does his own compositions too, so that's even better!
If the rights can't be acquired to them, then probably something really cliche and horrible from 1978, as a joke. How about some Barbra Streisand? (Sorry, that's being mean!)
ETA: Hooray, found it. These guys, Nelson Piazza and Elio Gerardi: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendI... -- their myspace profile is entirely in Spanish but they've got plenty of videos up (and a YouTube link; search "youtube" on the page if you can't read Spanish.)
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Nov 9, 2008 - 00 58
Oh, don't get me started, I have a song for every scene, the title is from a song... :)
Probably "Be OK" by Ingrid Michaelson. It's such a happy song and I quoted it as the epigraph. (Shh, no I was not looking to add to my word count!)
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Nov 9, 2008 - 01 49
It would almost certainly be Shostakovich's Second Waltz: http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=zSaYnQD7EpY
It's mysterious, a little bit unusual and appeals to the senses I think. Which essentially is what my MC's personality is. Also, it's an anachronism for my Novel's time period (Victorian) which is important because my MC is almost an anachronism himself. :)
This is a really interesting thread by the way, thanks for starting!
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Nov 9, 2008 - 02 40
"Life", by Devin Townsend, from Ocean Machine. I think that'd be the one. It makes the most sense with what I've written so far, anyway.
Of course, that could all change by novel's end...
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Nov 9, 2008 - 05 39
Depends - opening credits or closing? ;o)
For the opening credits, I'd probably say either "How Far We've Come" by Matchbox 20 or "Burned" by Better Than Ezra. Burned is so appropriate it's not even funny.
For the closing credits... either "Life Uncommon" by Jewel, or "Not As We" by Alanis.
Yeah. Can we tell what direction my novel goes in?
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Nano 2008: AWAKENING
http://thecityofdis.livejournal.com
50,069 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 06 47
Good thread.
If it was a popular song, "Map of the Problematique" by Muse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyLx0qc_gKc
If I chose an instrumental or classical piece though, I would go with "Ecstacy of Gold" bu Ennio Morricone (Yes I know its technically already part of a movie score, but Quentin Tarantino used "l'Arena" in Kill Bill 2, so frankly, i don't think it's that far fetched.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3u3fTG70Q&feature=related
I could also use metallica's version of Ecstacy of Gold :P: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7EeuWnc-8&feature=related
53,408 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 08 07
For the opening credits, to emphasize just what kind of a world we're dealing with, the Waltz from Tchaikovski's Sleeping Beauty, remixed to include the sounds of machinery, placidly playing while the steam-powered automated tea maker pops a gear and everything rapidly goes tits-up.
For the closing, playing over the High Society Steampunk version of a wild party, "Explosive" by Bond.
50,871 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 08 43
Another steampunk novel here, only slightly less based on machines, and more on the rise and fall of a gentleman by the name of Arcturius Lighter. (And yes, I did get the idea from the novel that inspired the film of this music.)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=91sfrw106xs&feature=related
(Handel's Sarabande.)
For me, it somehow manages to evoke the elegance of the era, and the pleasant manners and suchlike, at the same time as making it seem as if life is oddly dancing to the tune of fate. (The repeating tune.) Much like my character's life.
50,059 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 08 52
As my story is heavy fantasy, it would be an original full-orchestration piece of some kind, probably a dreary tune because I'm planning to end it in a death... But then swirling up to go over the plot of the story over again (it's about a war, after all).
It helps that I've been listening to the music that was used in the animated film based on The Balloon Comic (an infamous comic around DeviantART members). It's stuff from the soundtrack of the movie The Holiday, but put to a fantasy realm it is really fantastic.
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Nov 9, 2008 - 10 07
For the opening credits probably "HorrorBeach Pt. 2 [Instrumental]" by Horrorpops and for the closing "Walk like a Zombie" by Horrorpops also.
51,288 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 10 18
Maybe 'Hamburg Song,' by Keane. They are quickly becoming my novel's music muses. :-)
54,065 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 11 00
I don't know about opening credits, but for the closing credits, it would most definitely be "Tear Tassel Ogre Heart" by Ghost Bees. It basically sums up the relationship between the two brothers that my novel centres around.
13,334 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 11 11
At this point it would be Mirotic by DBSK, but it is totally subject to change as my ending is.
50,067 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 12 02
For opening credits, I'm thinking something by Rolling Stones, probably Not Fade Away. Either that or A Hazy Shade of Winter, by Simon & Garfunkel.
I'm pretty sure the closing credits would be to My Lady Heroïne, by Serge Gainsbourg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIkVfYKtsMk
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Nov 9, 2008 - 16 26
I'd rather my novel be an animated movie rather than live action ... but here's how mine goes:
Opening:
Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime (irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann) by NENA (the new version)
Important Part:
HOPE or PAIN (Orchestra and original remix) by Hamasaki, Ayumi
and I haven't figured out a song for the credits, ha.
12,552 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 18 03
Opening Credits:
I think I'm Paranoid by Garbage
Closing Credits:
24 by Jewel
51,266 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 18 49
Opening Credits--"What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry" by Nat King Cole. It so fits the theme of "Dangit! I kidnapped this random girl just because being King means I have to! I hate my life," that runs through my MMC's thoughts.
Closing Credits--The first one would be "Relax (Take it Easy)" by Mika. I have listened to it nonstop all through NaNoWriMo so far. My FMC is really level-headed becauseof it.
It has influenced my novel greatly--so much that I had to stop listening to it right now.
Then, I would have some really, really random song, like "The Music Man" by Nat King Cole, or "London Skyline" by Acoustic Alchemy.
:)
50,449 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 20 04
Opening credits: "Blue Angels" by Growing
Closing credits: " Tyttö tanssii" by Paavoharju
50,018 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 20 08
If mine were a movie, I'd want it to be by whoever played the main girl, since she is an acoustic musician. I would do something by Steve Reynolds. Once in Your Life for opening, Save Your best for end.
My story is also on Fictionpress, url: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2591260/1/I_Hear_The_Bells
89,058 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 22 13
Opening Credits: "Worst Hangover Ever" by Offspring
Ending Credits: "Ahead By a Century" by The Tragically Hip, followed by "Joyride" by Roxette
23,318 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2008 - 22 52
So far, it seems to be The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish. Its also my MC's theme song too, I think.
50,250 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2008 - 00 18
Opening credits would be Moving To New York by the Wombats - but only the first verse and chorus. It kind've acted as inspiration for my novel when I reached 7am on the 1st without a plot -.-
Closing might be Men's Needs by the Cribs.
Also Kill the Director by the Wombats would be somewhere on the soundtrack.
What's weird is that until Nov 1st I loathed both bands.
"NaNoWriMo, slowly destryoying your social life and music taste™"
63,779 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2008 - 08 14
I haven't thought of a specific title but I do know that it has to be by Loreena McKinnet. Her music is always in the background while writing my NaNo (a fantasy novel) and it just keeps me going, helping set the tone to a lot of my words. It wouldn't be fair to pick anything else!
But I wonder, realistically, how far movie-makers consult an author on a book's movie adaption. Could you insist, contractually, that such a song or such an artist just has get in the movie somewhere? :P
56,301 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2008 - 08 52
I can see my opening and closing credit sequence so vividly, it's becoming a bit of a distraction. My mind is thinking, "Hell, the movie's already been made. Why should I finish editing the book?" When the rest of me knows that I still have a lot of work to do before I can even fathom moving this far ahead.
Regardless, my opening credit sequence is the first track on Trevor Jones' score album to the film "Thirteen Days." I believe it's called "Lessons of History."
The closing credits will have, "When I Ruled the World" by Coldplay playing over them...
7,252 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2008 - 09 28
Not sure for the Opening credits, but it would have to be something instrumental that sets a perfectly romantic mood.
For the end credits: Barry White - My first, my last, my everything.
For the simple reason that I intend to use this title for the dedication.
6,109 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2008 - 11 32
"Whatsername" by Green Day.
As MC drives off into the sunset, she's got her memories of her friends to comfort her.
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Nov 10, 2008 - 12 56
LoL ok so the snarky week 2 imp has taken over here. I'm hitting huge walls of resistance when it comes to sitting down and writing, and I know when I get to this point, I'm the problem. Either I'm not paying close enough attention to what my characters are trying to tell me, or my muse has a really big surprise for my story that I'm not ready to deal with yet. Having said that, I'd have to go with the following song for my story's end credits. The bold text are my own added comments! *grin*
My Way
Frank SInatra
And now, the end is near;
Finally.. woo hoooo!
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which Im certain.
Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and evry highway;
And more, much more than this,
instead of listening to my characters and muse!
I did it my way.
Regrets, Ive had a few;
like cleaning house instead of writing!
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.
cuz ol' Chris Baty's watching!
I planned each charted course;
Now where is that darned PLOT?
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
instead of following my plot...
I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
like signing on for NaNoWriMo!
What was I thinking??
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
And now I forget just what I meant
when I spewed out the wording! But
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.
Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
oh how I've cried this gray November!
Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.
Cuz I made it thru, after all!
To think I did all that;
YES, I DID DO ALL OF THAT!
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I threw it all out in the open,
for everyone to see!
and I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got?
Just 50,000 words of mush
all in one spot!
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
Let the record show I took the blows -
And did it my wayyyyyy!!!
Thank you, thank you.... Thank you very much!
Frank and Elvis have now left the building!
Good writing everyone!
Dest ;)
50,089 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2008 - 13 21
The closing credits would be Us, by Regina Spektor- by the end of my novel the MC goes nuts and it's told from the pov of a girl who is in love with him. Unfortunately, he doesn't love her, and so she is the only one to stay with him- they go down together.
50,014 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2008 - 06 51
end credits would be "2 hearts" by kylie minogue
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Nov 11, 2008 - 07 13
I imagine this sort of thing all the time. In my never-ending story "River of Jordan", the film begins with in total darkness, then headlamps of approaching cavers illuminate an underground stream...the tune playing just then is "Acid, Bitter, and Sad" by This Mortal Coil. The end credits...probably the last passages of "Close to the Edge" by Yes, followed by "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes.
This year's story? I would probably steal a tune from one of my favorite "guilty pleasure" movies. "F/X" (with the wonderful Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy) and choose "Just an Illusion" by Imagination.
Jamski
My 2008 NaNoWriMi project: http://www.reyome.net/yardsale.htm